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Video Marketing on Social Media: Best Practices & Inspiration for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Animoto even offers special pricing and Storyboard templates for non-profits. As Hurricane Harvey hit last year, they created a video quickly with just an image of the doppler image of the hurricane, one photo from the devastation in Texas and then a couple photos from other natural disasters where they provided relief in a similar way.

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Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone

Tech Soup

The other big news in digital storytelling apps is that Instagram now supports videos in addition to photos. Price: Free Pros: Great storyboarding tools; Can import clips from camera roll (rather than internal app camera) Cons: Videos can only be five seconds. More Apps to Consider. Montaj (iOS).

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Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark

Tech Soup

Photo-printing company Persnickety Prints knows its target customer inside and out, and that knowledge comes through in how it addresses its audience: 2. We suggest storyboarding out your video story within the app by selecting one of the pre-loaded story structures. What Do I Want Viewers to Walk Away Thinking or Doing?

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause. This series of four free webinars will follow the path of our Storymakers short course for video preproduction, production, and postproduction, and you can also join for the final webinar on photo storytelling. Thursday, April 21. Friday, April 22.

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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!

Tech Soup

April 7, 2016 — Free webinar 1: Preplanning Your Digital Story from Concept to Storyboard. May 5, 2016 — Free webinar 4: Using Photos to Tell Your Organization's Story. April 19, 2016 — Free webinar 2: Producing a Successful Video Story from Sound to Screen.

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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the latter, I have a storyboard in my head and edit as I go. Photo by Aliza Sherman. I usually reserve video capture for a special story or moment that absolutely can’t be told with text. Sometimes this occurs as a video quote from someone who said something that was an Ah Ha moment for me or else it tracking down a story.

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Presentation Zen Blog: A Resource Review

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My process is analog, but I have to start with a mind map of the ideas (sometimes several versions of it), then do a linear outline, and finally sketch out a storyboard with image ideas. Then I sit with my storyboard, and look through my photo sources, like flickr and my photographs.